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by bubble_talk 7y ago
>>because of repeated public outrage at the abuses their lack engendered. I recommend anyone who holds this view to read at least one book written by Thomas Sowell. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Isn't this simply suppy-demand economics? Have you ever seen a comment on HN to the effect of "yeah, if you are in the US and not already working for one of the big tech companies, at this point that just means you are not good en
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
>>Curious do you apply the same logic to for instance Google? Yes. The entire big tech policy is basically a no-holds-barred power grab at the moment, which is definitely not "no evil". >>if the change is positive, why
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
I was also thinking the same, especially considering that you start with this as your main reason: "Anything whose main value proposition is about “ability to scale” will likely trade off your “ability to be agile & survive”."
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
The problem is that MS did quite a lot to try and discredit open source when Linux was in its infancy. This is a bit like breaking someone's knee, and then handing them a cane to hobble on, and then patting yourself on the back for bei
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Facebook is somehow really good at suppressing key metrics and important stories (and I am not sure how they do it). A good example is the friendly fraud case, which if it had come out pre-IPO, would have probably killed the company, or at
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
>>really! Roubini has predicted a recession every single year since 2008! Unlike, say, a set of sports games, you don't get an automatic reset to zero on Jan 1 2009, Jan 1 2010 etc and start with a "fresh new prediction&quot